D. P. MOHAPATRA, J.

( 1 ) THESE appeals filed under Section 110-D of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 are directed against the award passed by the Third Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Puri in Misc. Cases Nos. 183 and 184 of 1981. Both the Misc. Cases were filed by the appellant Sruti Shekhar Singh Samanta for compensation on account of the accident which took place on 2-2-1979. With consent of the learned counsel for the parties, the appeals were heard together and they are being disposed of by this judgment.

( 2 ) THE accident giving rise to the proceedings for compensation took place on 2-2-1979 at 4. 30 p. m. when there was a head-on collision between the Jeep bearing registration No. ORD 1540 in which the appellant, his father late Mayadhar Singh Samanta and some others were travelling and the road train comprised of two buses bearing registration No. ORG 2392 and ORG 2118 belonging to the Orissa Road Transport Company. The place of the accident was near Santha Tulsidas Tank on the National Highway between Cuttack and Bhubaneswar when the jeep was going from Cuttack towards Bhubaneswar and the road train was coming from the opposite direction. Due to the accident the appellant an